THE BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL-(KYUKETSUKI GOKEMIDORI)-1968-After a bomb threat a plane has an encounter with a UFO and crashes. Survivors include one of the pilots (Teruo Yoshida), a stewardess (Tomomi Sato), a dirt bag politician (Eizo Kitamura; later in THE STREETFIGHTER’S LAST REVENGE) , his toady assistant and his wife (also the politician's mistress), a sniper who assassinated a British ambassador, a fat guy who had intended to set off a bomb and a scientist (Kazuo Kato from several Kurosawa films). The one non-Asian is an American woman (Kathy Horan; also in THE GREEN SLIME) who’s husband was killed in Vietnam. It turns out Earth has been invaded by an alien race called The Gokemidoro who plan on destroying all Earthlings. They are gray blob creatures that put an opening in their victims’ foreheads and then inhabit the body. They kill by sucking all the blood out of their victims. The politician causes a lot of problems as they fight to survive. The chilling downer ending is very well done.
Director Hajime Sato had made a few other films including BATTLE BENEATH THE SEA but BODY SNATCHER (aka GOKE-BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL) was his last. Here he uses different color lighting when the alien kills it’s victims creating some eerie effects.
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